stewmills wrote on 10/11/17 at 14:25:49:I would have walked away around September 11. I REALLY would have walked away on Sept 20 - seller said that he was offshore.
My time is worth more than chasing down a sale to the point of frustration.
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I admit that I should have given up earlier, but I thought of two reasons why I didn't:
1) the price was very attractive and would have been (even with shipping costs) less than what I could get new from store.
2) I always try to help another person out who may need to sell, or have purchased something incorrectly.
I went ahead and gave up, and ordered from RevZilla - tire will be here tomorrow!
One other issue, for me that is, is that I don't do PayPal so I and seller have to negotiate how to get the payment to him/her. I can send a check, or even cash. The latter puts the onus on me to trust the seller to be honest. I have never had a problem up till this time!
The other thing we could do is to trust each other and have shipment/payment pass each other in the mail. I know this is a big one for the seller who runs the risk of losing the item he is selling AND the cash that he would be receiving.
What I have done is to hope that people trust me. When on the BMW website, I did this many times without even one problem. I pride myself on my honesty and integrity. I have done several buys here on this website.
One time I advertised for something (I now forget what it was) and one member graciously volunteered to send one to me for free! Imagine that?
He did send it, but I responded back by sending him some cash anyway just to show him how thankful I was!
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